Dr. Alina Bihovsky successfully defended her PhD dissertation, titled “Efficacy of Treatment in L1 and L2 in Russian/Hebrew Bilingual People with Aphasia,” under the supervision of Prof. Natalia Meir and Prof. Michal Ben-Shachar. Alina’s dissertation explores the efficacy of Semantic Feature Analysis (SFA) in bilingual Russian-Hebrew speaking individuals with aphasia.

Dr. Clara Fridman studied language maintenance in heritage Russian, Hebrew, and English speakers. Her MA thesis compared heritage Russian speakers in Israel and the USA on morphosyntax, while her PhD dissertation focused on the heritage lexicon across languages and contexts. She used a range of methodologies including picture-naming and narrative elicitation, network modeling, and eye-tracking.

Dr. Muna Abd El-Raziq is a speech and language pathologist. Her primary focus, both in practice and research, is autism. Her PhD explored language across different domains and examined the cognitive profiles of Arabic-speaking children with autism, an understudied population.  Her research revealed diverse profiles in autistic children, emphasizing the need for personalized intervention plans.

Oksana completed her MA thesis, Jeto bol’shoj XALON: Gender Agreement in Code-Mixed Russian-Hebrew Adjective-Noun Phrases. She is now a PhD candidate, focusing on code-switching and gender assignment in Russian-Hebrew bilinguals across child and adult populations.

Dana is a PhD student with a passion for linguistics, particularly language acquisition, bilingualism, and language processing. She examines accusative case integration and prediction through ERP and eye-tracking studies. Dana is a recipient of the prestigious Rotenstreich Scholarship for outstanding Ph.D. students in the humanities and BIU’s Presidential Doctoral Fellowship of Excellence.

Marina Avramenko is a PhD candidate at Bar-Ilan University, specializing in pragmatics within the field of linguistics. Her research investigates how heritage language speakers, both adults and children, produce the speech act of requests, focusing on the factors that trigger divergence from monolingual norms.

Sagit Bar On is a PhD student. Her research investigates pragmatic knowledge in bilingual speakers, focusing on how speech acts such as requests, apologies, refusals, and complaints are performed across different language profiles, with a particular emphasis on heritage speakers of English and Hebrew in both the USA and Israel. 

Sid is investigating the causes and variations of accentedness in adult heritage language English-speakers in Israel.  His research encompasses accentedness both in Hebrew and in English, and looks at the effects of development parameters (age of exposure to Hebrew; parental, sibling, and peer input; cross-language phonological and phonetic effects).

Tatiana Verkhovtceva is a PhD student, her research focuses on bilingualism, with a particular emphasis on the morpho-syntax of Russian-Hebrew heritage speakers residing in Israel. She aims to explore heritage language grammars and how morpho-syntactic structures are processed and used in bilingual contexts.

Avia completed her BA in Education-leadership and Linguistics, her MA was also in Education. Her native English inheritance, musical background, love of language and motherhood birthed the topic of her PhD. And under the supervision of Prof. Natalia Meir and Prof. Ronny Geva, Avia is exploring the world of bilingualism and vocalization in infants.

Iris is a Speech and Language Therapist focusing on communication in autism. Her PhD focuses on the linguistic profiles of Hebrew-English speaking children  with ASD who acquire English naturally through interaction or non interactively through the media. 

Marianna Beradze is a Speech and Language Therapist specializing in autism. Her Ph.D. project examines the pragmatic aspects of speech disfluencies and additive connectives in Russian and Hebrew monolingual and bilingual autistic non-autistic individuals.

Hodayah Zargari`s PhD project focuses on the intersection of media usage and language acquisition in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Her interests include examining how various forms of digital media, such as interactive technologies and educational programs, impact linguistic development and social communication skills in this population. 

Irina Rubinstein carries out research dedicated to phonetics and phonology of Russian-Hebrew bilinguals. Special focus is given to heritage speakers, both adult and children with and without ASD.

Sharon Cohn is a graduate student in Clinical-Rehabilitation Psychology, studying the effects of multilingual language exposure on minimally verbal children with autism. Her MA project is supervised by Prof. Natalia Meir and Prof. Ronni Geva.